Etymology

Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor

Today it means: A stress–energy–momentum pseudotensor for combined matter (including photons and neutrinos) plus gravity, allowing the energy–momentum conservation laws to be extended into general relativity. Full definition →

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Named after Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz.

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